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...they are possible only after [North Korea] is totally disarmed." Meanwhile, diplomats shuttled around the region trying to find a way to get talks going. The U.N., Russia and Australia sent envoys to Pyongyang, and U.S. Assistant Secretary of State James Kelly met officials in Seoul and Beijing. North and South Korea agreed to a ministerial meeting this week in Seoul, the first such talks since the crisis began. And China volunteered to act as a host for negotiations between the U.S. and North Korea if they ever come about...
...provoked to follow. The bigger headache for the U.S. has turned out to be its longtime ally the South Koreans, who have no interest in making life worse for their North Korean kin. The South's President-elect, Roh Moo Hyun, has irritated Washington by vowing to renew Seoul's policy of "sunshine" engagement with the North. Last week Roh publicly criticized the U.S. containment strategy. "I am skeptical it will make North Korea surrender," he said...
...understand why South Korea seems less concerned about its belligerent neighbor North Korea having nuclear weapons and more concerned about its hegemonic U.S. ally, visit the S bar in Seoul's chic Apgujeong quarter. It's only 40 kilometers to the dmz?well within artillery range?but you can't get much farther from the Stalinist North than this hip watering hole, where college student Lee Sung Yeon, 20, sips expensive cocktails with her girlfriends and talks about politics. Lee didn't attend recent anti-American protests, during which some of the demonstrators called for the withdrawal...
...spite of the North's increasingly menacing brinkmanship, South Korea advocates a diplomatic strategy markedly different from that of the U.S. While the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush is inclined to force North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il to heel by isolating him and imposing harsh sanctions, Seoul is pushing assistance and engagement?and it wants the U.S. to negotiate with Kim before he goes too far. Youthful South Koreans like Lee favor this approach. "They are rejecting the Cold War mentality and deliberately setting out on a new course," says Kim Kyung Won, former South Korean ambassador...
...other side of the barbed wire. Of course, there are plenty of South Koreans who still see the North as a threat. "We have gone too far," says Lee Dong Kwan, associate editor of the daily Dong-A Ilbo. And on Saturday, some 30,000 demonstrators rallied in Seoul to show support for the U.S. military presence in the South...